Thanks Professor! As I told Charles previously, it was watching some of your initial vids on functional programming as well as Brian Beckman's series that got me into learning Haskell. I do enjoy it and wished that F# had some
more of the features that Haskell does. I will make a post about it as I would like your POV on the matter. Thanks again, looking forward to the rest of the series.

While I may never have a chance to meet or speak to Erik Meijer, if you remember, tell him that I am (not that you know me either) fast becoming a Haskell geek and its all thanks to his incessant references to Haskell no matter what he talks about. Well
after F# I thought it was natural to hit Haskell as well. Also I am having a great time learning it. Erik is a Haskell Master Jedi, I am still Padawan.

Charles, also, thank for grabbing these guys at Lang.Net and having them talk, esp Gilad Bracha - he is one funny dude.~sparkysdasrath.blogspot.com

Excellent, excellent talk! I always enjoy talks by Erik - especially when he is in a group setting. On the other hand, every time Erik opens his mouth, I end up realizing I have to go learn something new Not a bad thing but there are only so many hours
in the day.

The topics dealing with concurrency will keep popping up and it is interesting to see all the ideas being thrown out on how to deal with this potential bottleneck that is bearing down on us. I hope that some time in the future I will be able to attend JAOO
myself - it just seems to be an amazing experience.

I have recently installed WinXP 64 bit and with the exception of some minor tweaks and driver issue (actually, I was just too lazy to fix the last device as I don't care for it) - I am happy with it. However, many programs were and are still being written
for 32 bit systems, so if there was supposed to be better performance via xp64, I really haven't seen it and I even upped my ram to 4g on my laptop.

I am however, very interested in a converted Server 2008 to Workstation because from what people have said, it is what vista should have been.

Very cool stuff. I am not a VB programmer as I have one full weekend on VS2003 VB experience

However, some interviews on C9 with Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman seem to point that they have big plans for VB so I am sure that I will get around to learning it soon. VB seems to be a good contender to be a hybrid language, mixing static and dynamic features
while still having a good level of abstraction to allow programmers to just dive in and be productive. I am also curious to see how the team will go about dealing with the concurrency issues that is sure to rear it's head in the near future. Maybe the TPL
will be a part of the solution, who knows.

It's very early/late - depends on how you look at it. Good night/morning niners!
~sparky